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Within days of a freak car accident that injured a freshman girl near the Science Center, reports from Connecticut surfaced that Yale professor of history Paul Kennedy allegedly hit Marissa Green MUS ’06 while driving under the influence of alcohol and with a suspended license...
...school’s Dining and Social Options Task Force recommended the expanded hours as part of a larger report on student dining. The report also suggests adding more intimate dining spaces, special catering arrangements with student organizations, and the possibility of serving alcohol in dining hall settings. The new hours will also allow for more flexible dining options for students who wish to stay on a college meal plan, according to the report. Last month, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) said it would not expand Harvard’s dining hours, citing an upcoming budget deficit and inefficient dollar...
...notice the artificial islands in the shape of a palm tree or the 56-story Burj al-Arab hotel, as tall as the Eiffel Tower, built like a billowing sail. Westerners are welcome, along with their vices. Europeans in bikinis mingle on the beach with Muslim women in abayas; alcohol flows freely at Dubai's nightclubs and resorts. With events like the Dubai World Cup, a horse race with a record $6 million purse, Dubai draws 7 million visitors a year, along with big-name acts from Luciano Pavarotti to Tiger Woods. Its economy has nearly tripled in size...
...learned, is hardly unique. A chronically sleep-deprived person will often go through repeated episodes of microsleep, sometimes accompanied by microdreams (which are usually interpreted as hallucinations). If you have been up for more than 20 hours, your reflexes are roughly comparable to those of someone with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08--which in many states is enough to be considered legally drunk. You should not drive--and you most certainly should not be flying a plane--in that condition. Moreover, the effects add up. Sleeping only six hours a night for a week makes you as tired...
...Coady, who lives in Edmonton, grew up in Cape Breton and writes with authority about life on the East Coast, as she did in her critically acclaimed novels Strange Heaven and Saints of Big Harbour. In Mean Boy, the geek hero's adventures with his mentor and experiments with alcohol, women and new forms of poetic expression (plus his unlikely friendship with a behemoth football player) all provide fodder for comedy. And somewhere in the haze of hangovers, the novel also manages to examine the nature of poetry, poets and the underappreciated fine art of growing...